AIZIREK TOKTOSUN
DALLAS,TX
Summary
I'm a highly analytical, detailoriented, and resourceful DevOps Engineer with 5+ years of expertise in IT, cloud infrastructure, cloud computing, and automation. I leverage knowledge in programming languages, configuration management, CI/CD, IAAC, and DevOps processes to provide analytical and technical recommendations. I utilize different orchestration, containerization, and cloud services, as well as possess hands-on experience in building, automating, and optimizing mission-critical deployments in the cloud. Demonstrates decision-making, leadership, and collaboration skills, and develops project implementations, integrations, and deployments. Spearheaded projects alongside multidisciplinary teams while working independently to meet deliverables and commitments.
Overview
6
6
years of professional experience
1
1
Certification
Work History
DevOps Engineer
IBM
10.2021 - Current
- Developed infrastructure automation and CI/CD processes, integrated solutions, and built scalable cloud infrastructure
- Collaborated with the team to assess requirements
- Engineered pipelines, tools, and services to deliver system solutions
- Maintained deliverables, coordinated the deployment processes, and established project test plans and strategies
- Demonstrated excellent configuration management using Ansible Tower and Ansible, automated operations and development tasks with Jenkins, and automated infrastructure and deployments with Ansible, Terraform, and Jenkins
- Deployed Docker Container using HELM CHARTS into Kubernetes Clusters and created and managed Docker deployment pipelines for custom application images
- Managed Kubernetes on Google Cloud Platform and EKS
- Managed GitHub repositories and permissions, including branching and tagging
- Wrote an Ansible Playbook to configure and perform tasks on remote nodes
- Designed, configured, and deployed Microsoft Azure for multiple applications utilizing the Azure stack (Including Compute, Resource Group, and Azure SQL)
- Cloud Services, and ARM), focusing on high availability, fault tolerance, and autoscaling
- Manage to host plans for Azure Infrastructure, implementing & deploying workloads on Azure Virtual Machine
- Creating an AKS cluster and Deploying an Azure Kubernetes Service Cluster
- Built 14 CI/CD pipelines in the ROSA OpenShift cluster resulting in a 25 to a 30-minute reduction in deployment time
- Utilized AWS API to create a code (release management) pipeline for five environments, and improved version integrity per deployment
- Fixed the broken, integrated Gitlab, AWS Code Pipeline, and CloudFormation CI/CD native AWS pipeline
- Configured Tekton Cluster pipeline for integrating development (DynaTrace) and production (Sumo) environment metrics into dashboards for faster and more accurate data collection
- Applied Kubernetes and Docker knowledge to evaluate and find the root cause of issues in the CI/CD pipelines
- Leveraged expertise in AWS cloud services such as EC2 and auto-scaling, as well as configuration management and automation tools
- Decreased the manual deployment process from 3 hours to a 45-minute automated process by creating services to expose deployments in the Kubernetes clusters, installing Kubernetes clusters, configuring and monitoring failed deployments in various namespaces and building and maintaining Kubernetes on AWS using Terraform
- Designed, developed, and implemented an automated environment provisioning process by writing 5 scripts on 2 applications and then installing, configuring, deploying, and testing applications in 4 environments
- Troubleshooted issues, outages, and anomalies
- Identified the root cause and determined the action items to resolve issues
- Configured AWS services using Terraform, defining the EC2, S3, VPCs, subnets, ASG, Security Groups, and Route53
- Managed and updated AWS AMI Images using Packer and managed IAAC through AWS CloudFormation and Terraform
- Monitored and managed automated CI/CD pipelines with Jenkins and configured Jenkins plugins to enhance productivity
- Set up and integrated Nagios XI, created Ansible playbooks to run tasks, and provisioned VPC and instances with Terraform
Site Reliability Engineer
Apple Inc
10.2020 - 09.2021
- Migrated 12 Kubernetes Clusters, containing over 100 nodes, from bare metal to Google Cloud Platform, achieved the cloud migration goals of the client to sunset the bare metal infrastructure to achieve cost savings
- Utilized my strong understanding of distributed and client-server architectures to collaborate with architects in designing and planning the overall migration
- Automated the application deployment process by writing multiple Prometheus and YAML scripts covering all Kubernetes clusters, reducing deployment time from a 48-hour manual process to an automated 6-hour process
- Exported DataCenter Data (SQL, MYSQL, Elastic-search) using Kubernetes and achieved successful pre-work for migration to complete one time
- Developed and maintained Continuous Integration and Continuous Deployment systems using tools like GitHub, Jenkins, and Helm
- Established best practices and design patterns supporting Cloud deployment using containerization, Continuous Integration, test automation, and Continuous
- Managed infrastructure services, responsible for including but not limited to deployment, operation, and troubleshooting
- Maintained services to meet service-level agreements (SLAs) or service-level objective (SLOs) by measuring and monitoring availability, performance, and overall system health
- Provided user support and incident responses and participated in on-call rotation
- Integrated, maintained, and automated application operations; tested, examined code, and analyzed results
- Adapted to client technologies and owned the operational responsibility for solutions
- Supported large capacities and scale reliability in a 24/7 environment, monitoring and analyzing application performance
- Responded to incidents to maintain system SLO/SLA, review and follow up production incidents
- Share on-call responsibility and troubleshoot problems across a wide array of services and functional areas
DevOps Engineer
Itron Inc
05.2019 - 09.2020
- Supported operating systems and performance tools, infrastructure environment, and server configurations
- Executed manual and automated application testing
- Developed and implemented testing and data analysis scripts and created backup automation and scheduled scripts
- Managed, improved, and monitored cloud infrastructure on AWS, EC2, S3, and RDS, including backups, patches, and scaling
- Administered new user accounts and provisioned and installed environmental tools such as R1Soft and Nagios XI
- Orchestrated operational tasks using Ansible playbooks and provisioned instances using Terraform, different environmental tools, and a vault for securing and storing sensitive data
- Effectively collaborated with teams and users to ensure codes and specifications met client requirements and achieved application functionality, stability, and availability targets
- Developed and maintained documentation and SOP related to technology installation, administration, and maintenance
- Performed IT tasks as directed by the manager and assisted with projects
- Monitored test logs and register updates
- Delivered operational support, troubleshoot system issues by investigating underlying problems and provided resolutions
- Implemented Configuration Management and Infrastructure as Code (CloudFormation, Terraform, Ansible, Python)
- Built and deployed multiple applications utilizing Amazon S3, RDS, IAM, SQS, and SNS, focusing on high availability, fault tolerance, and auto-scaling
- Designed, developed, and implemented system engineering solutions, configured, deployed, and tested applications in multiple environments
Certification
- Certified Kubernetes Administrator - CKA
- Certified Jenkins Engineer
- AWS Certified - Solutions Architect Associate
- Enterprise Design Thinking - Team Essentials for AI
- Enterprise Design Thinking Co-Creator
- Enterprise Design Thinking Practitioner
- HashiCorp Certified: Terraform Associate
- IBM Agile Explorer
- IBM Automation Practitioner
- IBM Automation: Compass
- IBM Consulting Way
- IBM Garage Essentials
- IBM Garage Foundation
- IBM Garage Seller for Services
- IBM Robotic Process Automation - Intermediate
- IBM Method Essentials
Personal Information
Title: Professional DevOps Engineer
Timeline
DevOps Engineer
IBM
10.2021 - Current
Site Reliability Engineer
Apple Inc
10.2020 - 09.2021
DevOps Engineer
Itron Inc
05.2019 - 09.2020